Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-06-22
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"a Metz pipemaker has been fined for
selling pipes bearing carved head Of
Gen. Boulanger.
The Bulgarian Sobrane has been
summoned to meet July 8, and will
probably elect a Prince or select
European official as Regent.
III Alma Tadema, the English artist, has
designed a piano which, when painted
by Mr.. Paynter, will cost the American
CRGsus who ordered it $4,000.
The late William A Wheeler, ex-vice
president, would have been married two
OF three years ago, had not his health
been in such a precarious condition.
Stage, the famous Yale pitcher, has
been elected one of the editors Of the
Yale .Neaos. Now the strikers will have
an portunity to get even with him.
Lord Tennyson, is suffering from
gout and therefore the Prince of Wales
has asked Lewis Morris to write the I'M
augural ode for the British Imperial
institute
M. Washington, the French Ambas-
sador to England, has resumed nego-
tiations with Lord Salisbury in the Suez
Canal and the New Hebrides neutrality
questions. .>.s ...S2 a =,
jeff Davis, Simon Cameron, Hanni-
bal Hamlin, and A. P. Kennedy are
said to be the only men living who were
members of the United States Senate
when the War began. -e.~
Holloway, the quack pill man, who
died recently, willed his vast fortune to
a stranger, leaving his aged sisters PEN
niless. Mr.. Holloway appears to have
been quack all the way through.
Florence M. Cushing of Boston,
Elizabeth r. Hoppleton Of Omaha, and
Mrs. Helen M. Backus of Brooklyn,
graduates of Vassar have been elected
trustees of that Institution, to serve six
years. .......:
Some valuable relics of Franz List,
bequeathed by him to the city of Vienna,
have lately been turned over to that
municipality. Among them was a
writing case once the property of Haydn,
and the clavichord used by Mozart at
home.
FL Since the adjournment of Congress
Senator Riddleberger has devoted his
time entirely to his newspaper and
law practice. In less than three
months he has acted as senior counsel
in six important cases in his State and
gained every one.
Gen. Logan is generally accredited
with the honor of having first suggested
Memorial-Day. Now the Geneva On.
~ Gazette claims that Gen. John B.
Murray of the One Hundred and Forty
eigth New York Volunteers originated
the custom. he and several comrades
having decorated the graves of soldiers
at Seneca Falls, May 30, 1866.
Apropos of Lord Salisbury's reported
remark at the recent Royal Academy
banquet that he could not call to mind
single statue of a man attired in q
'sclaw hammer coat, and George
Augustus Sala's wish that some
sculptor would try the experiment of
making one, the Pottsville Miners
journal invites them to come to Potts
take a view of the Clay Monument.
Frank Griffin is the wide-awake
brother of Mary Anderson. If any one
wants lesson in the art of making
money fly, he should 60 to him without
delay. At present young Griffin is on
his ranch in Colorado. where he has
turned into veritable cowboy, with q
Niagara of hair flowing down his
shoulders and dress as picturesque as
that of Buffalo Bill on parade He
manages his entire property alone and
is not yet 21. 49,
The late ex-Vice- President Wheeler
had a great reputation as a political
prophet. He foretoh the panic of 1873
and even went into minute details
which were. afterwards verified. He
prophesied the nominations of Tilden
and Hayes in 1876. He said to Blaine
just before the Cincinnati Convention:
"Brother Blaine, don't set your heart
upon the Presidential nomination. The
next candidate of the Republican party
for President is now Governor of Ohio"
Frank G.: Carpenter, one of the
American correspondents abroad,
thinks the Khedive Of Egypt bears a
striking resemblance to King Humbert
of Italy. s.He was dressed in European
costume, save that his back hair was
covered with red fez cap. He wore q
black frock-coat and white vest and
trousers Of a grayish hue. His linen
was spotless, and I noted that his
bosom was decorated with diamond
studs. He is a well-educated man and
speaks French and English. y,
Vassar girls ate, the past college
year, $4,000 pounds of fresh and 5000
pounds of smoked meats; nearly 5000
pounds of Turkeys; over 1000 pounds
of chickens; nearly 1000 pounds Of
fish; $4,000 clans; al gallons Of
oysters; $50 barrels of -four; 1900
pounds of butter; IS, 900 quarts of milk;
$4,000 pounds Of sugar; 1000 oranges
and lemons; 10000 bananas; over
1000 bushels of potatoes and 100000
buckwheat cakes. The sweet Vassar
girl graduate should be a rather